Chemical Castration: The Benefits and Disadvantages Intrinsic to Injecting Male Pedophiliacs with Depo-Provera Marquita Mack Child molestation is a serious problem in the United States. The legal system is lenient with pedophiles‚ punishing them with insufficiently brief prison sentences that are further abbreviated by the option of parole. Some child molesters are released back into society after serving as little as one fourth of their prison-time (1). Recidivism is extremely high among child
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beginning of the last century showing that castration or lowering sex drives in pedophilia decreases sexual behavior‚ decreases their urges‚ and decreases their sexual thoughts and fantasies.” If this is such‚ how could a 2005 study printed in the Journal of the American Academy of psychology and the law‚ find that between one and ten percent of castrated offenders repeat their crimes. (Goldman) Pedophiles should not under go chemical castration. Chemical castration does not address the issue at hand-
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Castration was typically carried out on the soon-to-be eunuch without his consent in order that he might perform a specific social function; this was common in many societies. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 21st century BC.[1][2] Over the millennia since‚ they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics‚ treble singers‚ religious specialists‚ government officials
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most states won’t allow it. Castration is considered barbaric but McQuay states that what he has done and could do to children is what should be considered barbaric (McQuay 139). Surgical castration is when only the testes are taken off and chemical castration is when men receive testosterone-lowering injections. Castrating child molesters will lower their sex drive and lower the chances of reoffending. Therapy would also be part of their treatment along with the castration. In other countries‚ it
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bull for one‚ makes the animal tamer and less likely to harm another person (“Castration”). This creates a safer environment for those on the ranch raising the cattle (“Castration”). One of the biggest reasons however‚ is the quality of meat on a steer is higher than that on a bull (“Castration”). Most‚ if questioned would by the higher quality meat‚ so if less calves are castrated then more meat is wasted (“Castration”).
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childhood when the fetish is formed‚ specifically in young males. Furthermore‚ the fetish is a ’substitute for the penis’; Freud proposes that as a young boy perceives that a woman does not possess a penis‚ he comprehends it as a form of female castration. Once he has observed the woman‚ there is a conflict between his original belief of her having a penis just like him‚ and his discovery that she‚ in fact‚ lacks. Consequently‚ this new discovery installs fear in the young boy‚ ’for if a woman had
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range‚ flexibility and power. Also known as the castrati‚ these male singers were castrated in childhood to preserve the treble pitch of their voice prior to transitioning into adulthood. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica‚ “the practice of castration‚ produced an adult voice
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psychoanalytic studies of literature‚ the qualities of the literature is castration‚ the idea of the double‚ involuntary repetition‚ and animistic conceptions of the universe. Ralph Ellison’s King of the Bingo Game‚ shows characteristics of uncanny literature. Specifically‚ the themes of castrations and animistic conception. Freud analyzes the castration complex in many of his writings. Particularly in The ‘Uncanny’‚ Freud states that the castration complex is the loss or forgotten psyche of sexuality. Freud
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I feel as though Hamlet is the most deserving of further analysis for this paper. I will analyze the two Freudian concepts that I find to be most interesting and prevalent within the text “Hamlet”; these two concepts are the Oedipus complex and Castration. Both of these concepts were developed by Freud and can be seen represented clearly by Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Oedipus complex‚ or Oedipal complex‚ is probably Freud’s most famous topic of study and is generally recognized in common society
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In Freud ’s psychoanalytical analysis of the self‚ as well as Nancy Chodorow ’s theory of object-relations‚ the father plays a strong role in the development of male identity. The Oedipus theory explains that the need of a father is to create enough anxiety in a boy to help the boy to separate from the mother and identify with the father. The boy ’s fear of the father in accordance with his pre-Oedipal love interest in the mother helps the boy to identify with masculinity and separate his self from
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